The following are
sites that contain public domain (free) utility software or art work. Please be
extra careful and only download files that are explicitly marked as “free” or “public domain”. Remember you are responsible for the resources
contained in your games. If it contains anything illegal, you are responsible!

§Many
of the online art work are stored in (transparent) gif format. XNACS1Lib does
not understand gif format. I used the Exorcist program to convert gif to png for textures. The Exorcist program can be downloaded
from: http://www.nigels.com/exorcist/Download.html

§Icons
are stored in .ico format. I used the IcoFX (http://icofx.ro)
to convert my photograph to icon.

http://camstudio.org/
(from Kyle Carrier, Spring 2010) [Kyle’s comments:This is a great free alternative to screen capture
other than fraps or similar tools which can cost a lot. It also offers a
lot more functionality than fraps in my opinion, you can record certain
sections of your screen instead of the whole thing, and you can output
your video using various codecs to cut down on file size (though they
still need compression through windows movie maker), as well as a few
other nice tools.]

http://www.virtualdub.org/
(from Kyle Carrier, Spring 2010)
[Kyle’s comments: This
provides screen capture capability as well as a pretty nice (and free!)
way to edit and touch up videos. It’s also really useful for compressing
videos captured with something like fraps.

§Physics
Engine: http://www.codeplex.com/FarseerPhysics
(from Katherine Kuttler,
Spring 2009 - one really neat
capability of Farseer that I discovered is that it
can convert a texture with an alpha into a list of vertices [ed: for collision purposes]).

§https://www.dreamspark.com/
-- If you are interested in XNA and/or developing software for XBOX 360: refer
to help files from our fellow classmates: Ethan Crawford, or from Howard Yuen. These documents show you how to
register for XNA Creator’s club membership for free and thus allow you to
develop/download games for free to the XBOX 360 console.